For decades, the cybersecurity industry has been shrouded in secrecy. This is partly because of the misunderstanding that cybersecurity often relies on obscurity as its primary form of defense. As the thinking goes, if adversaries don’t know about or understand the security controls that security vendors have in place, it will be easier to defend against cyberattacks.

No single organization is prepared to stop an attack from a nation-state Not so long ago, I woke up every morning focused on one thing: finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. During my 10 years working for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), my single objective was to identify and exploit networks to collect foreign intelligence. I was fortunate to work alongside the world’s best professional vulnerability and exploit developers. My time serving my government was formative and humbling.

Insights from the 2022 Results That Matter study “88% of boards regard cybersecurity as a business risk rather than solely a technical IT problem.”1 Regardless of geography, industry, sector, or use cases, most would agree that reducing risk is a top priority for their organization. Whether it’s decreasing phishing scams, ransomware, and malware attacks or reducing the risk of customer churn due to breaches, security is everyone’s concern.

Elastic Security has long been open — with open source roots, open development, and the release of our SIEM in 2019. In 2020, we further embraced the openness of Elastic and released our open detection-rules repo to collaborate with our users and be transparent about how we protect customers. That repo is focused on our SIEM and Security Analytics use cases and did not yet include Elastic Endpoint Security artifacts.